October

Year: 2001

Month: October

You’ve seen the bikes of 2002… here’s some for 2003

01 October 2001

Honda showed off its new bikes for 2002 at a private launch in Paris last month, now the firm is revealing some of its bikes for 2003. The huge VTX1800 is being joined by two more machines carrying...

Send us your daft snaps

01 October 2001

IT’S supposed to be the highlight of your season – the moment you meet your hero. You’ve queued for the pit lane walkabout, jostled for position in the crowd, blagged a pen and poster and primed your...

World’s first ride on new Ducati 998

01 October 2001

Marc Potter has stepped off the new Ducati 998 to report his first impressions of the Italian firm’s new flagship sports bike. Potter said on Tuesday he had enjoyed two sessions so far on the bike but...

Blue Marlin voted Best-Looking bike of 2002

01 October 2001

Aprilia’s Blue Marlin has come out way ahead in your vote for the best-looking bike of 2002. The firm revealed it’s ” close-to-production ” prototype at the Milan show last month looking for public...

Racers and ex-racers

01 October 2001

Chris Walker: Ex BSB and GP rider: Cast your mind back a quarter of a century when Chris Walker wasn’t so much the wild riding Stalker as the barely out of nappies Toddler. Not that that was enough to stop him wanting to get in the seat – the problem was he just wasn’t big enough. The man himself draws an entertaining picture of the event. There he is, out in front of the house on a bright day,...

Yamaha R6

01 October 2001

Year: 1999 (T). Mileage: 5457. Price £4599. The R6 is aimed at the sportier end of the 600 market, but the previous owner of this example obviously had different ideas – the high-rise pillion grabrail...

Kawasaki ZZ-R1100

01 October 2001

Year: 1999(V) Mileage: 5619. Price £4699. Kawasaki’s ZZ-R1100 was the first bike to be designed as a very, very fast sports-tourer, equally at home on sweeping mountain roads in the Alps as it is...

Strange but true

01 October 2001

Here’s out latest collection of weird worldwide tales with a motorcycling bent. If you have anything worthy of adding to our next round-up send an e-mail to jon.urry@emap.com Croatia: Despite being a national hero, Wimbledon champ Goran Ivanisevic can’t flog his Piaggio scooter. No-one put in a serious offer for it in a recent charity auction. Giant Ivanisevic, who is 6ft 5in tall, was told to get...

Coming soon on this site

01 October 2001

On Monday, October 8, 2001, we’ll bring you video action from our world’s first test of Ducati’s flagship 998 superbike. We expect to bring you another first test on another important performance bike early next week, too. Keep checking back to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

Chat live with Shane Byrne on Thursday lunchtime

01 October 2001

Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne will be online on Thursday October 4, from 1pm, to answer questions from anyone registered with motorcyclenews.com. Whether you want to know what he thought of Rockingham, or whether it got boring winning every round he finished, you’ll have your chance on Thursday. He won this season’s privateer championship within the the British Superbike championship. To join the live chat...

2000cc outfit should top 160mph

01 October 2001

This is the Sidebike, a mad bike-and-sidecar-in-one outfit with its own two litre engine. The French manufacturers claim the engine as their own work and say it makes 133bhp. The sidecar part has room...

MCN staffers

01 October 2001

Andy Downes: Deputy Editor: I had no money, about the same amount of common sense, but I wanted that bike. Even the “killer kettle” label couldn’t put me off. In fact, as a spotty 18-year-old, it...

Lib-Dem transport policy focuses on bikes

01 October 2001

The Liberal Democrats have devoted a whole section of their latest transport policy to ” Two Wheeled Motor Vehicles ” . Do they mean us? We think so. ” Two-wheeled motor vehicles, ” the policy...

Suzuki to bring in Roberts rep GSX-R600

01 October 2001

Suzuki says it is ” 99 per cent sure ” it will import a GSX-R600 with the MoviStar colours of defending World 500GP champion Kenny Roberts. And the good news for those who like the look is that it...

What it was like to crack the ton

01 October 2001

Ring ting, ting. We all know the sound from our learner days. Little 125cc two-stroke engines blowing clouds of delicious-smelling blue smoke into the atmosphere. This isn’t pollution, it’s a joy. But...

Win a riding holiday and track school with Chili

01 October 2001

Get ready for some sun-drenched roads, grippy track school Tarmac and lessons from Frankie Chili… you could be the lucky winner of a fantastic riding holiday to Nogaro in the south of France with the...

Designer explains MultiStrada in video exclusive

01 October 2001

Ducati designer Pierre Terblanche has come in for some serious criticism since his new MultiStrada was shown for the first time in Milan. Now, in our exclusive video download, he explains why his bike...